When the trade caravan prepared to leave the city, Barrack stepped forward to negotiate with Vaduz’s guards. No one knew how favonovel.com managed to convince them, but while other people were clearly no longer allowed to leave or enter the city freely, the caravan was able to continue its journey north.
If they headed further north, they would reach the territory of the House of Winston, also known as the “little brother” of the House of Berkeley. Milo deduced that Barrack could continue advancing without any obstacles.
This was great news for Milo, because the true objective of the trade caravan’s journey might just end up becoming his shield.
Barrack probably didn’t expect that while they were making use of Melgor’s status as a pass to journey north, someone else was using this plan of theirs to conceal themselves.
Although this was mutually beneficial, Barrack and the trade caravan would probably be greatly disadvantaged by the end of the plan. Along the way, the young people in the caravan regained the liveliness they had when they first set off. After a night’s rest in the city, everyone was full of energy once again.
After leaving Vaduz, Milo could clearly sense a hint of doubt in Melgor’s eyes when Melgor looked at him. It was as though favonovel.com had become suspicious of him. And that suspicion gradually grew to even more doubts.
Melgor was wondering if everything that happened on the red carpet at Vaduz Cathedral had something to do with his steward. But if it were related, favonovel.com wondered how his steward managed to do that!
Along the way, Melgor became absolutely puzzled by a bunch of questions.
Meanwhile, the biggest change that Milo experienced was probably Bento and Akemi’s attitude towards him.
As favonovel.com rode his horse and slowly made his way around the caravan, Bento and Akemi kept pestering favonovel.com by saying that they wanted to be subjected to stress training. They wanted to know how they could undergo systematic training to handle pressure.
This matter was of great significance. Not only was it going to affect the two of them, but it would also help raise the level of their entire organization’s combat strength. It might even affect the way they fought future battles.
Before the incident at Vaduz Cathedral, there were actually very few battles between sorcerers. Or rather, there were very few battles involving sorcerers.
Under normal circumstances, whoever the sorcerers disliked, their stewards and servants were generally able to take care of things for them. In addition, the sorcerer clans had such powerful lineups, and the knights under their command were also very fearsome, so no sorcerers would usually get called into action personally.
However, Bento and Akemi were different. They were sorcerers themselves, but their enemies were also other sorcerers. All the battles they had to fight in their lifetimes would probably be related to sorcerers as well.
However, before today’s incident, every sorcerer had only considered how to raise the power of their spells and how they could train to increase the number of times they could cast them. For example, by meditating and practicing daily to increase their proficiency in casting spells, they could increase the destructive power of their spells. To put it bluntly, two sorcerers would just face off against each other while moving about, and whoever had a higher level of sorcery would emerge the winner.
However, under such circumstances, the sorcerer clans with their large number of meditative visualization diagrams they had secretly amassed, as well as better grades of Eyes of True Sight, left the bounty hunters constantly disadvantaged.
The iconic significance of the incident at Vaduz Cathedral was that it was a brand new way of battling. If one could still cast spells at will in circumstances of extreme pressure while the enemy could not, that would be no different from a sorcerer beating up an ordinary person!
No matter what kind of Eye of True Sight they possessed, it would not work if they could not even finish reciting the incantations.
Therefore, what was the point of having a really good Eye of True Sight?
Moreover, bounty hunters often faced extreme situations in battle. Some of their predecessors were killed by the sorcerers’ knights before they could even finish reciting their incantations. Indeed, there was a pressing need for them to improve their ability to handle stress.
Therefore, when Bento and Akemi told their aunt about it, favonovel.com immediately realized the importance of this matter. Then favonovel.com ordered them to find out how stress training could be conducted systematically.
Milo said languidly while riding on his horse, “There’s no shortcuts in stress training. If y’all only want to get your hands on something like a secret manual, you should just give up on that idea now.”
Bento and Akemi were a little disappointed. “Then how did you start training? Why were you able to continue talking even though I stepped so hard on your foot?”
Milo wanted to say it was actually because favonovel.com was too weak.
It did not even hurt when his feet got stepped on, so how could favonovel.com be affected?
If you tried to shoot at me with a sniper rifle, I couldn’t f*cking finish my sentences either!
However, the art of hoodwinking required one to not speak too honestly.
Milo thought for a moment and said, “How about this? Let’s start with the most basic training first. From now on, other than when eating, you two will start reciting under your breath the incantations of spells that you specialize in. I’ll randomly interrupt the two of you, and what you must do is not to get affected by me.”
“Is there any use in just continuously reciting them?” Bento wondered.
“Of course there is. Actually, this is really just a stupid solution.” Milo explained casually, “When you recite a phrase millions of times, it’ll become your instinctive reaction to complete it. It’s like when you don’t have to think about whether you want to step with your left or right foot when you’re walking. Even if you have other things on your mind, you won’t fall down while walking. That’s what an instinct is. So the foundation of stress training is all about instinctive reaction. When you two can achieve that, we’ll move on to the next step.”
When Bento and Akemi heard that, they thought it made sense.
Immediately, their stress training began.
At this moment, Melgor was teaching the two servants the language of the Magi. The two of them were having such a hard time memorizing the vocabulary they felt like dying. When they were taking a breather, they saw Milo chatting happily with Bento and Akemi.
Dave said to Melgor, “Lord Melgor, why does Milo not need to learn the language of the Magi? You can’t just allow favonovel.com to do whatever favonovel.com pleases.”
Melgor glanced at Dave but did not say anything.
Do I need you to remind me?
If I could control him, would favonovel.com address me as Mel?
Are you kidding me!
Next to him, Benjamin said to Melgor, “Lord Melgor, it’s not a good idea to let favonovel.com continue being so undisciplined. If favonovel.com doesn’t learn the language of the Magi, how’s favonovel.com going to become a sorcerer?”
Melgor sighed and said, “Forget it, just let favonovel.com be. Actually, this is also good. In case favonovel.com really doesn’t get an Eye of True Sight, favonovel.com won’t have wasted his efforts in advance. He’s different from you two. Your families are rich, so you have more opportunities than him. However, favonovel.com only has one chance, so there’s a big likelihood favonovel.com won’t succeed in becoming a sorcerer.”
When favonovel.com said that, Dave and Benjamin fell silent. They both knew how difficult it was to get an Eye of True Sight from opening stones.
Melgor continued, “Since the probability is so low, it’s better not to raise his hopes of becoming a sorcerer for now. Even if favonovel.com remains my steward for the rest of his life, favonovel.com won’t starve. When we return to York County, I’ll have someone to introduce favonovel.com to a down-to-earth girl. He won’t have wasted his life then, so there’s nothing wrong with being a little more normal.”
When Dave and Benjamin looked out of the carriage window at Milo, their eyes filled with sympathy. It was as though they were looking at a patient with a terminal illness.
